Mark Voelker
Chief Architect And Vice President at North Carolina State University
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolMark Voelker is a seasoned architect and executive with 12+ years of experience designing and modernizing cloud and distributed systems for enterprise and telco environments. As Chief Architect and VP at PagerDuty and previously leading Architecture for Auth0/Okta and OpenStack at VMware, he builds platform engineering teams that operate high-scale identity and cloud platforms handling billions of logins and telco/NFV workloads. Mark combines hands-on expertise in OpenStack, Kubernetes, vSphere, and networking with a breadth-first leadership style that spans product, standards, and upstream open-source engagement. He is also deeply involved in mentoring and civic tech education through long‑standing volunteer roles with NC State’s Park Scholarships and related advisory boards. Notably, his career blends customer-facing telco architecture work with pragmatic platform modernization—bridging standards, R&D, and production engineering across global teams.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (21)
openstack9
cloud-init8
block-storage7
opendev7
python7
irc7
vcenter6
ubuntu6
tosca5
rss4
testing4
openshift3
continuous-integration3
vendor3
openstack-api3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
markvoelker/blog
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:63 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 11 months
openstack-archive/interop
Mar 2015 - Jun 2020
Data and documentation maintained by the Interop Working Group
Contributions:105 commits in 5 years 3 months
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